Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, the American levels of belief in God and afterlife have remained fairly constant since 1948. But the deep disenchantment with religion that spread through the '60s and early '70s seems to be ending. The percentage who think religion is "increasing its influence on American society " has climbed from 14% in 1970 to 39% last year. Today, 71% of those interviewed say they are members of a church or synagogue, and in a typical week 40% attend services...
Agreed Carter: "Yes. And prostitutes, cheaters, tax collectors, the common people, the dark-skinned people. The average person with whom Christ lived would not speak to those of a different color or religion. Do we do the same thing?" he asked in the church that he and his family vainly tried to integrate nearly 15 years ago. "Quite often, if we go into a Baptist church in the South, there's a social and economic elite. We're the prominent people in town. There's a tendency to think that because I've been accepted...
...global wrath against the Canadian government is certain," wrote the Frankfurter Allgemeine. "In a confrontation between sports and politics, sports proved to be powerless." "Politics should not be an issue any more than religion," said Edward W. ("Moose") Krause, athletic director at Notre Dame. "This just makes me sick." Lord Killanin, head of the International Olympic Committee, was sick too. "Government interference is the most serious problem we face," he declared. "We're scarred, and I, as president, have had my eye blackened...
...stars flourish-particularly in a specialized union of pseudo scholarship and science fiction that could be called fiction science. Like astrology or its medieval cousin alchemy, fiction science tries to explain the unknown through a system of symbolic beliefs-a kind of mythology purportedly based on scientific reason. Like religion, FS's principal aim is to explain the mysterious origin of life on earth. In that sense, the Arthur C. Clarke of Childhood's End and 2001 is a fiction scientist...
...lack of vitality among American Jews, a problem he says exists in Israel as well. "It is hard to survive as a Jew in a time when Jewish traditions and symbols are not so strong. A big section of Israel is just Jewish, without any strong commitment to the religion...